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Olmert political appointments at Trade Ministry under scrutiny
By Zvi Zrahiya and Mazal Mualem
 

State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss is compiling a report on appointments at the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Small and Medium Enterprises Authority (SMEA).

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert holds the Industry and Trade portfolio. Lindenstrauss is examining the qualifications of these appointments to determine whether any were purely political and thus illegal.
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The report will be released after the elections, not as part of the annual comptroller's report, which is due in two months. A draft of the report was submitted to the Industry and Trade Ministry for responses.

The investigation began under the former comptroller, Eliezer Goldberg, after union representatives and other organizations placed several complaints about appointments at the ministry.

The appointments under scrutiny include those of Shmuel Rosenman as SMEA chairman; Amiram Bukspan as director general and Lilach Nehemya as deputy director general.

Ra'anan Dinur is currently director general of the ministry.

The State Comptroller's Office confirmed that the comptroller is examining appointments at the SMEA and will submit a separate report with its findings once the work is completed.

'Still waiting'

Officials in the Prime Minister's Office said in response to reports on the investigation that the comptroller asked Olmert questions in August 2005 and received answers, "and we have been waiting ever since."

The officials said the law prohibiting publication of comptroller's reports before their official release makes it difficult to respond to the reports' contents.

Officials in Olmert's Kadima party yesterday did not seem too concerned about the comptroller's report, which they do not expect to damage the party.

Campaign officials are more concerned about the possibility that Kadima supporters will not bother to vote on March 28 out of the belief that the party's victory is secure.

The Likud is demanding that the State Cmptroller publish its findings before the elections on the grounds that the public has a right to know who Olmert is before election day.
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